Quoting Ant McWatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Platt distorted something I said yet again, August 22nd: > > Liberals would love to shut down talk radio, a frightening wish > remindful of a dictator's first move -- silence opposition. > > Comrade Bentraitor kindly replied on my behalf, August 22nd: > > This is the Mightly Wurlitzer of the season here on the Limbaugh and > Hannity programs. "Liberals want to silence talk radio".
Two libs again in denial: From "The Hill," June 28: "Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on Tuesday that the government should revive the Fairness Doctrine, a policy crafted in 1929 that required broadcasters to balance political content with different points of view. Its time to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, he said. I have this old-fashioned attitude that when Americans hear both sides of the story, theyre in a better position to make a decision. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Rules Committee, said this week that she would review the constitutional and legal issues involved in re-establishing the doctrine. Sen. John Kerry (Mass.), the Democratic Partys 2004 presidential nominee, also said recently that the Fairness Doctrine should return." Fortunately, the House voted overwhelmingly to silence these liberal voices against free speech, at least temporarily. > Never mind > the perennial assault on the Academy brought year after year by the > same trumpets, an attempt to silence that nearly cost Pirsig his job. > I, for one, love that talk radio is on the air. It provides a > never-ending river of stupidity by which I can teach students how to > begin applying critical reasoning skills. And since Platt is simply > doling out more "fear rhetoic", let me remind here that the > "dictator's first move" has historically been to vilify the Academy > and marginalize the media. Hitler's effectiveness in attaining power > stemmed directly from his two-front vilification of these social > branches. All professors are evil "lefties", and the "media" is > nothing but lies and propaganda. Let us once again look at the facts instead of Arlo's looney left propaganda: "Media Bias is Real" http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6664 "College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot Study Finds" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8427-2005Mar28.html [Arlo] > By effectively drumbeating the > message that the only "fair and balanced" viewpoint was that > sanctioned by the Reich, forces that would normally function to > counter this power were made impotent. Let's also remember that the > "dictator's first move" also always includes the condemnation of > criticism to the regime as "unpatriotic" and "treasonous". Those who > would condemn the dictator would be branded as "aiding and abetting > the enemy", vilified as traitors and enemies of freedom. So, yes, > let's consider these "frightening wishes remindful of a dictator's first > move". What a laugh. The drumbeat from the media is all left wing, as the study cited above proves. > Ant McWatt comments: > > Comrade Bentraitor, > > This is one of the things that especially concerns me with Platt, his nearly > complete uncritical acceptance of the status quos dominating viewpoint. Better the status quo I think than uncritical acceptance of regressive policies. {Ant} > If > he lived in a similar social position in Nazi Germany, Communist Russia or > Taliban Afghanistan, he would no doubt be taking the party lines found there > without question and especially the anti-academic line found in all these > socially dominated societies. Its a vicious circle: repress the people > most likely to question the status quo leading to a general reduction of > critical thinking hence leading to a more repressive, pliant society. As > such, keeping in mind Platts recommendation that you should visit the > Holocaust Memorial, I suggest that it would be more constructive if, > instead, he (as a neo-con supporter) visited the similar memorials in Chile > or Vietnam. Yes, memorials to the millions slaughtered by the Viet Cong and Pol Pot after the our liberal Congress cut off funds to South Vietnam and surrendered to the Communists. (Exactly what they would like to do now in Iraq.) > I suppose at least, as Ive mentioned previously, Platts posts enable me to > keep track of the latest fear inducing propaganda to appear on talk-radio or > Fox News without having the trouble of tuning into these stations myself. > Its a much appreciated if often disturbing service though God knows what > the creators of South Park would think if they realised that one of their > most extreme caricatures (the hippy hating Cartman) was actually alive and > well. Truth is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction. Yes, especially when you leftists distort the truth or deny it all together. > P.S. Though I had never heard Rush Limbaugh before, when he appeared briefly > on BBC Radio 4 last year, it took me less than 30 seconds to recognise who > exactly the moronic Red Neck voice belonged to. A wonderful illustration of "critical thinking" that Arlo and Ant pay lip service to. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
